Alere Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Alere

Pros – Supportive coworkers, but stressful due to high expectations

Cons – Indifferent management, lay offs yearly

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Alere full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent benifits are ok but could be cheaper since it is a health company

Cons – No Bonus structure for sales position
Little freedom to perform job in a way that would benefit company employee and most important Participatn
Unrealistic metrics for all employees
Little to no growth opportunity’s
Raises are insignificant and do not even make a difference
No recognition for performance
Upper management is very secretive and vague tries to hide the truth and answers your question by leaving you even more questions.
Very unstable environment leaving you with a lack of job stability and constantly walking on egg shells or looking over your back.
Not a job that inspires greatness out of its employee’s
No efforts to keep motivation or moral up
Management yell and belittle their employee’s in front of other employee’s and openly discusses short comings of one employee with another. Agents are not giving opportunities to express their frustrations openly without fear of corrective action harassment or loss of job. Agents are forced to cower to the managers in fear.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your employee's and they will take care of you. The bottome line is not always what is most important. Live the Alere values. And treat employee's with dignity and respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Alere full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There were some great people to work with. Willing to spend money on technology. Some upper management had the right priorities.

Cons – Most upper management had no idea how to get IT work done in an enterprise management. Extremely poor decision making regarding priorities and technologies. Management was more concerned with protecting themselves than doing the right thing.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on doing the right thing rather than hiring your buddies.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Alere

Pros – Good people, good ideas in theory (tobacco cessation and weight management), somewhat flexible schedule depending on your department needs, telecommuting for some people, central downtown location, easy transit access.

Cons – Salaries are far below competitive in many departments, promotion opportunities are limited (it's more about who you know and who likes you), many inefficient processes, rapidly declining employee morale, benefits cost more and cover less each year, unrealistic revenue goals (bonus payouts are rare, and aren't much to cheer about when they do happen).

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Alere

Pros – Opportunity to help others. Decent benefits.

Cons – Quality was overshadowed by production rate. Management was only inteested in report status. Constant "improvements" for company only meant the reports were manipulated by some employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at where your "top employees" have differences in your reports. See what queues or assignments are not worked as scheduled.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Alere

Pros – Staff are good, but over worked.
Great place to learn and move on.
Beautiful facility and location.
Good memories and some lasting friendships.

Cons – Lack of direction and fires everywhere.
Top management not there and out of touch with staff.
Cost over quality. Form over substance.
No advancement.
Many layoffs and high level of uncertainty

Advice to Senior Management – Stop, listen to staff issues and act to make it better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Alere

Pros – No smoking environment. Good work/life balance. Friendly people in all departments.

Cons – Lack of processes. Responsibilities are not clearly defined. Organizational chart is considered bad (HR refuses to publish per request of senior management). All employees get the same small bonus regardless of salary. Hard working people get the same percentage raise as people who don't work very hard.

Advice to Senior Management – Ditch the matrixed organization philosophy and set clear owners of projects and people. Stop treating everyone the same.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Alere

Pros – remote work, working from home, staying out of the office, no commute, working in pajamas, working remotely, no winter driving

Cons – poor management, poor systems support, non-existent computer support, crappy telephony systems and support, reactive management to client sales beyond capacity

Advice to Senior Management – fix your current internal issues prior to taking on more problems by chasing the money

Current Employee – been working at Alere

Pros – Cut so lean, I have learned to wear many hats and have increased my skills

Cons – Poor communication throughout the company. Poorly run company, the balance sheet is a mess! Common to see meager salary increases 1 month and layoffs the next. With a rush to get new products out the door, quality suffers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Alere

Pros – Great learning experience. Very nice people. Fantastic building. Free parking. Convenient location in great area. Good business model. Good potential.

Cons – Many challenges to the business. Morale is low due to multiple layoffs. Management could be more competent. Pay is not competitive. Budgets are not realistic.

Advice to Senior Management – Part ways with people who have a franchise on institutional knowledge. Concentrate on compliance issues to win new business. Time for a salary survey.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend